Sam Seder is the best air america host

Listened all day.

Randi blew it for me when she insulted the called about no child left behind
She has the best connections to influential people, bt her ego gets in the way of her job

Franken was a bit too dismissive of the guy explaining "what creates a terrorist". This was a great opportunity to do some goo, but the doddering old idiot couldn't keep his marbles straight long enough to make it impactful...

Seder was hilarious - the kind of funny Al wishes he was - and Sam has a command of the facts.

Randi is great for appealing to haters - arrogant rightwing assholes. She also still has a great command of facts and is powerful when she is not standing in her own way.

Al is great for the older people who are a little slow on the uptake like he is. Still classicly funny at times. Katherine was a great handler for him.

Sam is great for the under 45 crowd.

Anyway, i think Sam has legal training in his background and he makes the best arguments, in my opinion. I absolutely loved the whole bit today about Tony Snow saying the war was "an ongoing study.... etc. etc."

:eyes:

I love Al's interviews....he gives the most in-depth interviews, and it's so impressive to me that he always READS THE BOOKS when he has the authors on. I think his first hour is always a little rough but I love when the guests come up because he actually exchanges ideas and always in a civil/friendly/humorous way, even if it's someone like G. Gordon Liddy or that creepy freeper friend of his. I think that's so unique in public discourse today, I really enjoy a break from the screaching. Randy is WAY too screchy and ranting to me although I certainly agree with her almost 100% of the time, I always end up turning it off.

is how he's gotten better and better. I'm really impressed with his work now.
You go, SS.

AAR doesn't have him for free on archives -- you have to be a premium member (unlike White Rose Society that carries Thom).

Come on, Sam, get someone other than AAR to carry your shows!!!!!

They are free. The only irritating thing is that each hour is broken up into 4 different podcasts, but at least they are accessible. Sam is on at o'dark-thirty here, so I can't listen to him live. It's nice to be able to hear his shows, though, when I have the time.

Here's the link:

http://www.am1090seattle.com/

I know Steph isn't AAR.

"Al is great for the older people who are a little slow on the uptake..."

As an over 45 person, that's pretty arrogant and insulting.
I'm pretty sure that I'm "faster on the uptake" than the vast majority of the "under 40" set...
but it's not an age thing...

Please leave generalities to the Freeper repukes.

it says "the older people who are a little slow on the uptake."
not "the older people, who are a little slow on the uptake."

why is Al better for "older people" or "people who are a little slow on the uptake" (btw, who even SAYS that anymore?). The implication was clear... you implied that old fogies are a little addle brained and need to be spoon fed the message because they are just so slow to figure things out. It is the second most common mistake of youth (to use the shrubya word "misunderestimating").

So... either apologize for making a stupid an insensitive remark or don't. But don't try to parse
the message such that it's MY fault for "reading more into it" when, in fact, I read into it exactly
what you wrote.

BTW, Al is good for anyone, young or old... and his drilling a point home (even to the point of endless repetition) is because many people today (especially) need to have the point drilled in or it doesn't register.

Sam is good too, but he tends to talk down to people and his voice grates on my nerves after a while.
But I try not to hold it against him... he can't help how his voice sounds... and it's not nearly as bad as some who occupy the airwaves and cable bandwidth like Rita Cosby.

with a comma, it would have meant "old people, being those who are a little slow on the uptake"

without the comma, it is means "the set of people who are both older and also a little slow on the uptake" which is precisely a good audience for franken. They better get his references and if they are a little slow on the uptake that fits with Al being a little slow on the output.

I was just a little disappointed this afternoon with ... well, i felt like he was bordering on patronizing the guy who was explaining the conscription of a hypothetical terrorist. It seemed like al was tired or couldn't focus what they were even talking about, which seemed like the most realistic and important discussion I have heard on the "war on terror" to date.

>>>Randi blew it for me when she insulted the called about no child left behind
She has the best connections to influential people, bt her ego gets in the way of her job>>>

I wondered about this too. She seemed not to have *listened* to the caller. The caller's husband was a NYC school teacher who transplanted to FLA, tried to teach there, couldn't deal with the bureaucracy, unmotivated and ill-prepared kids, etc., quit, became stay at home dad, and wife... who called Randi's show.. took a 10k pay cut so he could do home schooling of their own kids.

Randi seemed to ge the facts all mixed up. Husband became a 'failed exec' who "lowered himself" to work with low-income HS kids in Fla. None of this pertained to the facts of the situation... as I heard 'em anyway. Didn't stop Randi from denouncing both wife and husband.

Perhaps she was distracted. Perhaps she should listen better.

what she turned the call into is "why are you blaming the kids"

The caller didn't call to blame the kids. The point was that the kids were in bad shape because of a bad system.
The caller called to criticize No Child Left Behind because it still allowed for kids to be left behind - they came ill-equpped and unprepared.

Randy took this and said "You're blaming the kids... Oh, they don't teach interesting things anymore". And then the fucking idiot tried to criticize the caller because her husband taught language instead of science or math! Man Randi must have been smoking crack during the break or something. She was on planet looney toons.

Heart attack. (wait wait wait) Didder-dodder. Didder-dodder. (wait wait wait) Now, what was I doing? (wait wait wait).

It's amazing how much he's grown. In the beginning he was a mess, just stammering in circles. But now he speaks better than Al and Rani.

Money and Mike aside, I think AAR has been a booming success.